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A gunman in Tel Aviv opened fire on a community meeting for LGBT teens.
Women’s rights workers in Afghanistan call for more aid instead of more troops. Guess which one of those things Obama is sending?
The Massachusetts Dept of Public Health just released the results of a survey comparing the health of LGBT residents to hetero and non-trans residents. As Helen notes, is a pretty alarming gap between the health of trans people and cis people.
Bob Herbert weighs in on a question Shark-Fu has tackled in response to the Skip Gates arrest: When is anger productive?
Femininity and masculinity on So You Think You Can Dance.
There’s a new report on how reproductive justice intersects with environmental justice.
Veronica celebrates her momoversary.Paige Schilt at Bilerico has a moving post about truck stops (Yes — truck stops! Read it.): “When I was a straight, white college student, I used to appreciate places like this as kitsch. That was before I traveled the U.S. with my ex–a gender non-conforming man of color, a non-citizen. Now I sense the undercurrent of violence. I can taste the ambient terror.”
Apparently the White House garden is contaminated by a toxic sludge used as fertilizer during the Clinton administration.
A hundred immigrant detainees in Louisiana are on a hunger strike in protest of jail conditions.
On refugees, rape, and why we need an International Violence Against Women Act.
Kate Harding on Michael Pollan on home cookin‘: “[...] I still can’t help thinking his penis is showing when he describes Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” — which also debuted in 1963 — as “the book that taught millions of American women to regard housework, cooking included, as drudgery, indeed as a form of oppression.” Funny, I always thought Friedan became a feminist icon because she articulated what millions of women already felt, not because she brainwashed them into believing that repetitive, menial, unpaid labor might not be the best use of their talents.” (Amanda has more.)
Examining the overwhelmingly negative lexicon for aging female bodies.